I was first formally introduced to “Hamlet” through the Reduced Shakespeare Company when I saw “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare” (abridged) in the seventh grade. I was immediately infatuated ...

FOLLOWING the fashion in movies and books, Sir Laurence Olivier has acted and directed a Hamlet with a simplified Freudian interpretation. The mad Ophelia makes caressing motions over a phallic ...

Prologue. “Diseases desperate grown, by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.” An up-to-date translation of these words implies that a serious disease requires drastic treatment, which ...